Re: Fwd: George Miller

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

In New Orleans, they used Katrina as a pretext to fire all of the 
unionized teachers, overwhelmingly African American.

Yes, they are connected, as agents and mercenaries of what some call 
the ruling class.

Pete Farruggio




At 04:50 PM 9/10/2007, you wrote:
> Peter mentioned the New Orleans school situation.  Unfortunately, 
> Mary Landrieu has been a big supporter of choice, and what has 
> happened in the Crescent City as that they have used Katrina as an 
> excuse to gut the normal structure and replace it with massive 
> charter efforts, bringing in a lot of people from places like Teach 
> for America and New Leaders for New Schools, and also bringing in 
> Paul Vallas (as if his track record in either Chicago or Philly was 
> anything particularly noteworthy).
>
> Unfornunately, Walter Isaacson has a rave about all this in Time - 
> as it happens he grew up in New Orleans, and he is also on the board 
> I think is of TFA...
> Isaacsons' piece was in Sept 6 
> issue:  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659767,00.html
>
>
> and it is probably important to remember that he is VERY involved 
> with Aspen Institute (gee, why do all of these places interconnect), 
> as you can see by this 
> link: 
> http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.2253415/k.5A1D/About_Walter_Isaacson.htm
>
>
> teacherken   aka Ken Bernstein
>
> Kenneth J. Bernstein
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